New components of the MIDAS data acquisition system

Author

Ritt, S. ; Amaudruz, P.A.

Author_Institution

Virginia Univ., Charlottesville, VA, USA

fYear

1999

fDate

1999

Firstpage

116

Lastpage

118

Abstract

The MIDAS data acquisition system has been successfully used in many small and medium scale experiments at TRIUMF and PSI under various operating systems. Since its initial release in ´97, several new components have been added. A dedicated HTTP server allows experiment control through any Web browser. A Java interface has been added to allow a platform-independent graphical experiment control and monitoring. A general-purpose Java control program using the SWING widgets can be extended with MIDAS Java Beans to suit experiment specific needs. Beans currently exist for time-over-value plots, for run control and as an interface to the MIDAS slow control system. Other new components are a background logger and a general purpose alarm system. Unified driver libraries have been written to allow operating system independent access to CAMAC, FASTBUS and VME. Several slow control drivers have been added, including an EPICS channel access interface

Keywords

Internet; data acquisition; high energy physics instrumentation computing; CAMAC; EPICS; FASTBUS; HTTP server; Java Beans; Java control program; Java interface; MIDAS; SWING widgets; VME; control drivers; data acquisition; Alarm systems; CAMAC; Control systems; Data acquisition; Fastbus; Java; Libraries; Monitoring; Operating systems; Web server;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Real Time Conference, 1999. Santa Fe 1999. 11th IEEE NPSS

Conference_Location

Sante Fe, NM

Print_ISBN

0-7803-5463-X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/RTCON.1999.842578

Filename

842578